https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/mtv-news-shut-down-paramount-layoffs-kurt-loder-1235483098/#recipient_hashed=370f40e9d87df3a308cc002c99ef16cce2f30802be0086e43b180abaa659155a&recipient_salt=6400d06ee43280284d4875a07c897e4949727524d8

It once (https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/tv-shows/2023/05/10/645ae054268e3ef33e8b4598.html) defined (https://pitchfork.com/news/mtv-news-is-shutting-down/) music culture (https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-05-09/mtv-news-mainstay-of-90s-shuts-down-rip) with (https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/13d30w3/paramount_media_networks_showtime_and_mtv/) correspondents like Kurt Loder, SuChin Pak, Tabitha Soren and Gideon Yago but it's (https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/mtv-news-shuts-down-paramount-layoffs-showtime-networks-1235607638/) officially (https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/09/media/mtv-news/index.html) no more (https://www.avclub.com/r-i-p-mtv-news-iconic-news-brand-1850421699).

MTV News alums pay tribute (https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=Awr4.kJ5hlxkGCkAuRHQtDMD;_ylu=Y29sbwNncTEEcG9zAzYEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny/RV=2/RE=1683814138/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fpeople.com%2ftv%2fcarson-daly-ananda-lewis-more-former-vjs-react-mtv-news-shuts-down-after-36-years%2f/RK=2/RS=8WGZV5rE3GEYAUBNAJBKz6_W_SU-)

With the dissolution of MTV News, if former FCC chair Newton Minow was still alive, he would definitely refer to the network's current programming as "a vast wasteland."

“It Was Lightning in a Bottle”: An Oral History of MTV News (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/feature/mtv-news-oral-history-kurt-loder-tabitha-soren-1235484146/)

Thirty-six years after TV's youth-culture monolith changed the face of cable news, its star correspondents — Kurt Loder, Tabitha Soren, John Norris, SuChin Pak, Chris Connelly, Alison Stewart and Gideon Yago — reminisce about the pre-internet golden years of the coolest media job ever.

MTV News Website Goes Dark, Archives Pulled Offline (https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/mtv-news-website-archives-pulled-offline-1236047163/)

Paramount Global also has removed content from CMT’s site.

By Todd Spangler

More than two decades’ worth of content published on MTVNews.com is no longer available after MTV appears to have fully pulled down the site and its related content. Content on its sister site, CMT.com, seems to have met a similar fate.

In 2023, MTV News (https://rockandrollglobe.com/music-journalism/remembering-the-glory-days-of-mtv-news/) was shuttered amid the financial woes of parent company Paramount Global. As of Monday, trying to access MTV News (https://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/archive/index.php/t-436105.html) articles on mtvnews.com or mtv.com/news resulted in visitors being redirected to the main MTV website.

The now-unavailable content includes decades of music journalism comprising thousands of articles and interviews with countless major artists, dating back to the site’s launch in 1996. Perhaps the most significant loss is MTV News’ vast hip-hop-related archives, particularly its weekly “Mixtape Monday” column, which ran for nearly a decade in the 2000s and 2010s and featured interviews, reviews and more with many artists, producers and others early in their careers.

Former MTV News staffers posted on social media about the website shutdown and the scrubbing of the archives. “So, mtvnews.com no longer exists. Eight years of my life are gone without a trace,” Patrick Hosken, former music editor for MTV News, wrote on Twitter. “All because it didn’t fit some executives’ bottom lines. Infuriating is too small a word.”

“sickening (derogatory) to see the entire @mtvnews archive wiped from the internet,” Crystal Bell, culture editor at Mashable and one-time entertainment director of MTV News, posted on Twitter. “decades of music history gone…including some very early k-pop stories.”

“This is disgraceful. They’ve completely wiped the MTV News archive,” longtime Rolling Stone senior writer Brian Hiatt commented. “Decades of pop culture history research material gone, and why?”

Last week, Paramount Global’s CMT website similarly pulled its repository of country-music journalism dating back several decades.

Reps for MTV did not respond to requests for comment Monday.

Some observers noted that MTV News articles may be available through internet archiving services like the Wayback Machine, but according to Hiatt older MTV News articles do not show up via Wayback Machine.

In May 2023, Paramount Global shut down MTV News — which had already been severely downsized by layoffs in recent years — coming amid a 25% reduction in workforce across the Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios and Paramount Media Networks groups in the U.S. The group is headed by president-CEO Chris McCarthy, who in late April was named one of the three co-CEOs running Paramount Global’s “Office of the CEO.”

MTV News began in the late ’80s with “The Week in Rock,” a show hosted by Kurt Loder, who was the first MTV News correspondent.

"You've Changed, MTV! It used to be about the music!"'
--Paraphrasing Milhouse Van Houten.
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Somebody has to do a meme with that.

MTV - What a disgrace :(